From Enterprise, OR-- another small town just 1 hour North East of La Grande…read more The newest branch is now in Island City, the newer part of La Grande. EONL is directly behind the brand new Super Walmart Garden Center. Employees are friendly and willing to answer questions and give suggestions. They have higher prices than Walmart's, but EONL's plants are much larger and healthier. In the long run, it's probably worth paying extra .

Bi-Mart has officially declared war on customer convenience with their brilliant new setup for…read morebottle and can returns. Gone are the days of dropping off your bag and moving on with your life. Now? You get three clunky, painfully slow machines out front--each one only accepting ONE specific type of item (bottles, cans, or glass). You're now expected to stand there like a robot, feeding in cans one by one, with a 30-second delay between each, while the machine loudly rejects half of them anyway. Let's be clear: this isn't about "efficiency." It's a greedy move designed to make the process so annoying that customers just give up--like I did, with a full bag and only $4 processed. Bi-Mart still gets to say they "offer redemption," but they've made it as frustrating as legally possible. They've taken a service that worked and replaced it with something utterly unusable--not to serve you, but to save themselves money. It's cynical, lazy, and disrespectful to the people who have supported this store for decades. Bi-Mart used to stand for community and convenience. Now it stands for cutting corners and hoping you won't notice. Well--I noticed. And I'm done.

Here you go:…read more -Extremely friendly staff -Lots of sales on useful items -Wide selection of sporting goods -Housewares are a bit pricier -Pharmacy staff is very nice and helpful, never a long wait! -Easy parking -Nice little garden section in front -Lacks much of a food selection -$5 for the lifetime membership (no membership required for the pharmacy) -Decent selection and quality of apparel (not like Nordstrom, but not like Rite-Aid either) -A nice quiet departure from Walmart and its associated madness -Employee owned!